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Word: combien (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cheese on the first three days of their week there. She will then traipse around Sunningdale, Walton Heath, Hoylake and Ranelagh, humbly admiring his niblick shots and vocabulary. That divides the misery, and on Sunday they will both be seasick crossing the Channel to drink Parisian champagne and reiterate, "Combien?" He would really have liked to play up in Scotland. She pined to see Italy and ride in a gondola. But they are an understanding couple. They compromise on Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golfers' Tour | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...appeared as "a statuet vender," and held up to view a statuet which those in the first ten rows pronounced to be an excellent likeness of herself. Mlle. Parisys announced loudly and stridently in argot that she would tell the world it was a good likeness: "Et maintenant, Messieurs! Combien pour moi (holding up the statuet)? How much for me?stiff like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Quel Beau Nu | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

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